O caso Morel: um caso metaficcional

Abstract

This article reflects on Rubem Fonseca’s novel O caso Morel (1973), starting from presuppositions relating to the metafictional narratives. To do so, the novel’s experimentation procedures produced after the 1960s, expounded by Monegal (1979), will be commented on. The considerations of metafictional narratives by Hutcheon (1984) will be used as a basis for reflection. Moreover, Dällenbach (1973) will be remembered to think about the diegetic presence of the writer and the reader in Fonseca’s novel. This presence is an important aspect that sets the metafictional narratives.